Election Commission defers issuing notification for reserved seats in Punjab Assembly
ECP says it would be notified after the conclusion of the by-election for 20 vacant PA seats


Islamabad: The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) on Thursday ruled that the allocation of reserved seats -- three women and two minorities -- would be notified after the conclusion of the by-election for 20 vacant Punjab Assembly seats.
The seats for which the by-elections will take place fell vacant after the ECP had de-notified 25 PTI dissident MPAs — 20 general candidates, three women, and two minority members — who had voted for PML-N’s Hamza Shahbaz against their party's line during the Punjab chief minister’s election last month.
ECP's five-member bench had reserved the verdict earlier today on the directions of the Lahore High Court (LHC) which the PTI had moved last week for notifying new MPAs on reserved seats in the assembly.
The reserved seats are allocated to parties on the basis of the total number of general seats secured by each political party in the provincial assembly.
In a bid to secure the reserved seats, the PTI had asked the ECP to issue the notification based on the current numbers in the Punjab Assembly, but the election body ruled that it would notify the allocation of reserved seats once the by-election takes place on June 17 and the new party position is formed.
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